Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman signed a contract to resume the musical career that she interrupted in December 1947. She would start practice in Manhattan next month, warm up with informal recitals next summer, step back on the concert stage next fall...
...Manhattan's massive Federal Courthouse on downtown Foley Square, the U.S. Government brought eleven top leaders of the Communist Party to trial. The twelfth, William Foster, 67-year-old party chairman, had begged off because of an ailing heart. The charge, hung on them last summer by a grand jury: they had conspired in 1945* to form the present Communist Party structure and teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government...
...free of both the romantic hubbub and the folksiness that Hollywood prefers in its patterned fictions. Intimates describe the Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown, Mass. Servants are kept the year round at both places...
Atomic energy has been produced in sizable quantities ever since 1942, but so far, not a single kilowatt has been put to practical, peacetime use. The Atomic Energy Commission, smarting from criticism, decided last summer to set up a special "Reactor Development Division" to start the reactors reacting...
...very-bestseller of 1948 was not The Naked and the Dead after all. Norman Mailer's big, raw war novel (TIME, May 10) had held the lead all summer and much of the fall, sold 125,000 copies. But by New Year's Day, Mailer had lost the race. The man who passed him in the stretch was an old hand at turning out bestsellers. Lloyd C. Douglas' The, Big Fisherman (TIME, Nov. 22)-a novel about Saint Peter-had hit the stands in mid-November, sold a whopping 350,000 copies in a scant six weeks...